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☀️ You are invited to attend our monthly "The Bridge" webinar ☀️
Guest Speakers: Robin Patton & Gloria Gilmore from “One Shared Story” (see info below)
Date/Time: Thursday 2 April 2020, 9:00 am MST - 1 Hour in length
WebEx Link: https://bit.ly/FamilyHistoryCommunityConnectionsTheBridge
Meeting number (access code): 266 658 749 Meeting password: TEQ4xf4s
•Join by phone +1-415-655-0003 United States Toll
•Join from a video system or application Dial 266658749@churchofjesuschrist.webex.com You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.
One Shared Story trains researchers in methods for finding hidden history. They work with locally held historic documents, locations data, and historic records to create a bigger historical picture in providing clues useful in African American research where surnames are not contained in records. Here is an example of their work: https://fluvanna-history-oss.hub.arcgis.com/
In this monthly webinar, people join in to share how they are creating a "Bridge" with family history work in relation to their community. Sometimes we will have a guest speaker, other times we have a friendly and fun discussion on a given topic. If you are unable to join us, we will have notes, and continue our conversation in this group.
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We want to thank these lovely ladies for taking the time to spend time with us sharing their love and enthusiasm for African American research, and teaching us of what they are trying to accomplish.
Robin Patton – MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Virginia and has 25 years of experience integrating processes and technology. She enjoys applying technology in innovative ways and has worked with the Louisa County Historical Society to pilot projects that provide information in historic documents as geospatial data that can be analyzed on a map. She uses her skills in data development and modeling to inform and coordinate the transcription and locational data development efforts of museum volunteers and staff.
Her background with One Shared Story: Invited by a friend to who manages their local historical society to attend meetings where people were looking for a building, in her neighborhood, that had once existed in Revolutionary times. Through these meetings Robin met Gloria Gilmore and Linda Austin who were teaching African American family research. Robin soon learned that what she knew about African American history was incorrect, and that documents did exist prior to the Civil War, just in different format and African American researchers knew how to find it. Lastly, it was repeatable - the process can be shared.
Gloria Gilmore – 30-year career with Department of Defense with many varied experiences with training military non-commissioned officers. She personally knew many of her older family who taught her family stories. She was taught African American history in her family, and in her segregated Elementary School and High School. Gloria attended West Virginia State College where weekly seminars were held with mainline speakers and prominent leaders attending such as Dr. Martin Luther King, James Forman, and Leontyne Price. There students saw what they could become. At this time, she began to wonder about where her family came from and started to put pieces together from tangible items they left behind. Due to her success with her family history research, she wanted to share the process with others, believing that it is through these experiences that changes the attitudes of communities and the people. She believes that the contributions of ordinary African American people should be shared. Her passion lies with who the people were in the communities that lived in homes, that gave their blood, sweat, and tears for the advancement of their families and communities.
One Shared Story Mission Statement:
In one shared story our mission is to expand what we know about the past so we can better understand the present and work together to create a compassionate, inclusive community for the future.
- encourage research to reveal the hidden histories of individuals and communities.
- provide support to amplify underrepresented stories from our shared past.
- foster dialogue within communities and the general public to expand our common narrative.
- promote transformative change to create communities that respect and include all people.
To understand how these ladies combined Robin’s mapping skills, with Gloria’s passion for collecting and sharing stories, please take time to look through these links:
https://oss.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html
- The 6th picture in the ribbon has a detailed description of what they have done: https://lch.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=a95d3ff3e0ec4458a3d56f8bc935a380
A great discussion was had about working with FamilySearch to help gather stories and to share with others.
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Truly one of the very best genealogy/family history presentations I've "attended" - ever. Their combination of knowledge, passion, and ability to present logically and coherently are superior. Plus, their willingness to share things that are sometimes difficult for many, in such a detailed and objective manner, is what's needed for this work to go forward effectively. I found myself shaking my head almost in disbelief several times - not that I didn't believe what was being said, but because it was just so unexpectedly deep and well done. I only wish I was in a position to make use of most of what was presented in our own area. But I'll certainly be passing it along to others in this area in hopes that it will "catch" locally and spread. I'm aware of documents that are privately owned that could be of very significant value, but unfortunately the owner of the formerly government documents is far more interested in getting a premium price for them, than how we look at such things in this (the FH) community. But miracles happen, and at least some seeds have been planted. This presentation seems "suspiciously" well timed with the recent awareness of the documents and a couple of other "unrelated" happenings, so perhaps a pattern is being set up for more to come. As I said in another post, a sign on a Protestant church seems particularly relevant here: "Coincidence is God's way of being anonymous."
Thanks for arranging this!
-- Chris
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Thank you Chris! We are so glad that you attended and that you enjoyed it. These ladies really are wonderful and their passion for helping people gather information to find the story of their families is inspiring.
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